was to make this place ready forthecityofzion or the coming of jesus. >> people are by nature psychologically story tellers. we all understand what it is to have a beginning and middle and end to a story. >> dr. keith ablo is a fox news contributeder. >> the doomsday scenario is at odds to my mind with religion because in fact it is it relieves people of needing to take the journey toward self. >> it embraces a range of end of time beliefs clearly suggesting that an event will occur on december 21, 2012. how did this phenomenon get started. >> the idea of the doomsday has been around for at least 30, 40 years and it builds as the date approaches. blame it on internet. people used to gather under a big tent and preacher would tell us jesus coming to earth. >> the end attracts our attention. we wanted to try to forecast what is going to happen, forecasting is a big part of the human condition. >> the maya were a thoughtful civilization but why did they abandon their great cities and appear to vanish from the face of the earth. >> from some mysterious reason, maya civilization co

was to make this place ready for the coming ofthecityofzion. that is the second coming of jesus. >> people are by nature psychologically story tellers. we all understand what it is to have a beginning and a middle an an end to a story. >> dr. keith ablow is a psychiatrist and fox news contributor. >> the doomsday scenario is at odds to my mind with religion. in fact it is an anesthetic that relieves people of needing to take the journey toward self. >> the 2012 doomsday embraces a range of end of time beliefs clearly suggesting a cataclysmic or transform tive event will occur on december 21st, 2012. how did this phenomenon get started? >> the idea of a maya doomsday has been around for at least 25, 30, 40 years. now it builds to a krau shen doe. blame it on the internet. the internet is the analogue tent meetings that used to be held gathered under a big tent where some preacher would tell them about jesus coming to earth. >> the end atraks our attention we want to try to forecast what is going to happen. forecasting is a big part of the human condition. >> the maya were a thoughtful civil

they abandon theirgreatcitiesandappear to vanish from the face of the earth? >> for some mysterious reason, possibly connected with something as simple as 100 year drought, maya civilization collapsed a little more than 1,000 years ago. >> cannot give the item that the people need to live so the people abandon big cities. they go to the countryside. >> one of the reasons why the sites were abandoned, once it was too much work to keep these cities going, once they got too big and destroying too much of the forest to maintain it was easy for the maya to pack up and leave. they were self-sufficient any way. >> we look far away for the answers. maybe the aliens will help us. maybe the ancient maya have words that will help us. >> here, deep within the hot and steamy mexican jungle we find mystery to the maya from here to my colleague lauren greene in israel. >> solstice celebration few and far teen if you are a christian looking for doomsday, go no further this is the sight of armageddon the end of time's battle teen good and evil. that story coming up next. you see, c-max helps you load your